Bitter clash over Evansville bridge funding and construction
Kentucky officials threaten to provide cash for Kentucky's share within fifteen days unless Indiana awards Evansville bridge contracts. Assistant Attorney General Clifford E. Smith charges Indiana has kept awarding road contracts since 1930, delaying the Ohio River span amid a funding dispute. He demands full financial details and contract records since the Supreme Court decree.
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Evansville
Ind
Indiana
Kentucky
Indiana Highway Commission
Ohio River
Clifford E. Smith
John J. Brown
Evansville Press
Scripps-Howard
Indiana Commission
Smith
Brown
United States Supreme Court
Ogden
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
War veteran carries bulletin leg sixty seven years
Simon Pincus 86 in Brooklyn sits up in a wheelchair after operation. He relays he feels fine aside from pain in his right leg where a Confederate bullet lodged sixty seven years ago. He was wounded December 13, 1862 at a skirmish before Fredericksburg. An X ray revealed the bullet last summer.
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United Press
Brooklyn
N. Y
Simon Pincus
Pincus
Fredericksburg
Goshen Man Sues Over Telegram Error
Louis Batchelor of Goshen sues Western Union Telegraph Company for 810 dollars alleging a telegram error caused a stock sale at an incorrect price. He had wired to sell forty shares when the price reached 60 but the figure 179 was used, producing a loss.
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Goshen
Uv Times Special
Ind
a_ telegram
Louis Batchelor
Western Union Telegraph Company
Batchelor
Chicago
Doctor Reveals Radion Cancer Experiments in London
Dr H S Souttar of London Hospital reports a series of cancer treatment experiments using radion, a heavy gas produced by decaying radium, disclosed in the British Medical Journal.
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United Press
London
H. S. Souttar
London Hospital
Culver Cadet Fatally Hurt In Glider Crash
Rochester Indiana August 25 injuries from a glider crash at Culver Military Academy proved fatal in a hospital. Richard Edwards of Dayton Ohio died at age 47 in the incident and is named in the report.
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Rochester
Ind
Culver Military Academy
Richard Edwards
Dayton
Doctors Choose to Save Man Let Woman Die
In San Francisco a medical team chose to save Irving S. Johnson, 25, using the hospital respirator, over Miss May McClough, 30, who died from respiratory paralysis. Johnson was married with a 14 month old, making his recovery likelier if kept on life support.
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United Press
Francisco
Irving S. Johnson
Miss May McClough
Johnson
Children's Hospital
Miss McClough
Youth Kills Two Immigration Officers in Frenzied Attack
Emerich Frenett, 21, killed two U S immigration officers, Lawrence Doton and Samuel Jones, during a trainyard confrontation near Rainy River Ontario. He died Sunday night handcuffed after a posse trapped him in a shack near Fort Francis.
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United Preas
Lawrence Doton
Ranier
Minn
Samuel Jones
Warroad
Canadian National Railway
International Falls
Frenett
Here
Doton
Enid
Mont
Jones
Ft. Francis
Bandit Gun Taken In Early Morning Robbery Clash
Mod el bakery driver Loral Tansy wrestled a revolver from a robber who jumped on his truck at Ritter Ave and the Baltimore & Ohio tracks. Tansy fired five shots as the bandit fled into woods, and he believes one shot hit.
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Loral Tansy
East Tenth Street
Tansy
Ritter Avenue
Baltimore & Ohio
Allegedly used smoke screen to escape police arrest
Aaron Nieman, 31, of 3102 English Avenue, was arrested after allegedly using a smoke screen to escape pursuing officers near Bloomington and Washington Street. He denied creating the smoke, claiming the car acts that way, and the authorities held him an hour later.
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Aaron Nieman
English Avenue
Nieman
Bloomington
Washington Street
Wife’s Jewels Stolen Man Returns for Larceny Charge
James McBride 55 a barber was brought back from Chicago to Terre Haute to face grand larceny charges after being accused of stealing his wife’s jewels. He claimed intoxication led to the spree and that he planned to return them when sober as all jewelry was recovered.
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United Press
Terre Haute
Ind
James McBride
Chicago
McBride
Store Owner Dies After Suffering Illness Fall
Michigan City report states Charless Allison, 40, died after he collapsed in his store while becoming ill and falling to the floor. Authorities described the incident as a fatal outcome from a medical episode.
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Michigan City
Ind
Charless Allison
Women Fliers Set for Last Hop of Derby
The tenth annual national air races in Chicago feature the women's Pacific air derby with five contestants arriving from Los Angeles en route to Curtiss-Wright airport. Leader Gladys O'Donnell, from Long Beach, Calif., enters Milwaukee with a strong lead as Al Williams and Jimmy Doolittle showcase American air prowess alongside French ace Marcel Doret. Kenneth Carr, of Ypsilanti, Mich., crashed a glider during demonstrations and was hospitalized.
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United Press
Chicago
Los Angeles
Milwaukee
Curtiss-Wright
Gladys O'Donnell
Long Beach
Cal
al Williams
Marcel Doret
France
Jimmy Doolittle
Williams
Doolittle
Doret
Deisel
Travelair
J. Wesley Smith
Philadelphia
Hartford
Kenneth Carr
Yypsilanti
Mich
Carr
Pietro Colombo
Fredrich Lohse
Frank Hawks
Amelia Earhart
Paul Siple
Eric
Frank Parker
Sixth Corps
Fear Kidnapped Girl May Be Murdered in Indiana
A 10 year old girl, Betty Ann Foster, was abducted by Claude Dellinger 27, who left a note threatening to kill her if police are notified. State wide search spanned Kankakee river bottoms as authorities alerted Indianapolis and Komomo police to aid in the pursuit.
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United Press
Valparaiso
Ind
Claude Dellinger
Betty Jane Foster
Dellinger
Ernest Foster
Foster
Kankakee
Indianapolis
Kokomo
Foster Farm
Betty Ann
Burney Maxwell
Girl Killed by Auto in Front of Home in Tacoma
A 3 year old girl Betty Lou Hogan died when she ran from a parkway into a car driven by Durbin Tacoma 21 of R R 8 Box 157 at noon today near 1755 East Raymond street. Tacoma was arrested as coroner’s verdict may lead to manslaughter charges. Parents and seven siblings survive. Funeral plans not set.
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Durbin Tacoma
R. R
Betty Lou Hogan
Jesse Hogan
East
Raymond Street
Tacoma
Motorists warned to report auto defects before arrest
More than 300 motorists who failed to pass inspection on the safety lane last week face arrest on Wednesday unless they report to Lieutenant Frank Owen, head of the police accident prevention bureau, to have auto defects corrected.
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Frank Owen
Police Accident Prevention Bureau
Owen
Dying Marquis Invites Friends to Farewell
The debonair Marquis Boni de Castellance once husband of Anna Gould, paralyzed on his left side, sent a card to friends announcing the hour of extreme unction. After the rite the marquis declared his withdrawal from society and the world and bade each friend farewell.
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P . Burris
Boni de Castellance
Anna Gould
Horse trainer Alexander Wishart dies suddenly at track
Alexander Wishart aged 60 a longtime horse trainer in Illinois and Indiana died from a pulmonary hemorrhage while exercising a horse at the state fairground track He lived in Indianapolis five years and previously ran Maple Lawn farm stables at Delevan Illinois for ten years He handled a stable of colts for Indianapolis owners.
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Alexander Wishart
East Forty-second Street
Illinois
Indiana
State Fairground
Indianapolis
Wishart
Maple Lawn Farm
Delavan
Ill
Relatives Sought in Rafferty Death in Michigan
Indianapolis police seek Rafferty relatives after James F. Rafferty was found dead Saturday in a Sturgis Michigan hotel room. A Rafferty sister is reported to live in Indianapolis.
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James F. Rafferty
Michigan
Indianapolis
Sturgis
Mich
Rafferty
Death threat shocks Kansas City milk guards conflict
In Kansas City a milk strike leaders meeting to curb violence followed a death threat to David Hawley head of guards hired by city distributors. He said callers warned he would be “put on the spot” unless he left his post guarding milk trucks.
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United Press
SAS
Wisconsin Judge Dead After Sudden Heart Attack
E Ray Stevens a 61 year old Madison resident and member of the Wisconsin supreme court since 1925 died unexpectedly from a heart attack at his home in Madison early today His death creates the fifth vacancy on the high court during Governor Walter J Koehler's current term.
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Bu United Press
Madison
Wis
E. Ray Stevens
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Walter J. Koehler
Youth Dies in Society Hold Up in Cleveland
In Cleveland a party held at R. S. Dunham's suburban home ended in tragedy when Miller Wilkinson, a 21 year old Princeton student, was shot and killed. Bandits Angelo Bell 20 and Mike Bell 16 were wounded and captured after a hand to hand struggle with guests.
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United Press
Cleveland
Miller Wilkinson
Princeton
Angelo Bell
Mike
R. S. Dunham
Wilkinson
Bell Brothers
Former Doherty executive pleads guilty to embezzling 210000
A. W. Shafer once a $75 weekly district sales manager for Henry L. Doherty & Co. admitted embezzling $210,000 in criminal court. He was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary after being linked to stock market losses totaling over $1.5 million and blamed for wrecking two Cincinnati banks.
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United Press Cincinnati
A. W. Shafer
Henry L. Doherty & Co
Shafer
Doherty Company
Central College opens fall term with heavy enrollment
Enrollment at Central Business College Architects and Builders' building surged as the fall term opened. Principal Fred W. Case said enrollments would continue through September 2.
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Central Business College, Architects and Builders
Fred W. Case
Young Cleveland balloonist Donnie Crawford recalls mishap on wire
Donnie Crawford four visits with parents at North Pennsylvania Street home during a National Exchange Club convention. He parachuted from a thousand feet but his balloon hit a wire and burned. He still enjoys rides on his father and plays with circus balloons and his own adventures. He says he was whipped for mischief and jokes about life with Byrd.
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Donnie Crawford
Cleveland
Donnie
Don Crawford
C. C. Underwood
Pennsylvania Street
National Exchange Clubs
Richard E. Byrd
Bomb Attack on Calcutta Police Commissioner's Car
Sir Charles Tegart police commissioner had his car bombed in central Calcutta. He fired and two of his three attackers were killed or wounded. one was arrested. In Peshawar clashes with the Wazir tribe left one British officer and eight soldiers dead as troops moved to disarm natives.
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United Press
Calcutta
India
Charles Tegart
Peshawar
Banker S. W. Straus Ill in New York
S. W. Straus, noted banker and financier, remains in serious condition in New York after a three week illness. The report outlines his fragile health and ongoing medical observation.
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United Press
New York
S. W. Straus
Tragic Shooting and Suicide in Springfield Hotel
Roy G. Staley a 35 year old Dayton man killed himself in the Arcadia hotel after shooting and wounding his estranged wife and Harold M. Smith 21 hotel clerk who sheltered the woman. Mrs Staley had sued for divorce.
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United Press
Springfield
Roy G. Staley
Dayton
Arcadia
Harold M. Smith
McIntyre Captures Indianapolis Miniature Golf Title
Maurice McIntyre defeated Mrs. Mary Jane Meyers 1 up in the final to win the Indianapolis miniature golf championship. A 15 foot putt on the final hole sealed the victory after Meyers had drawn level on the 35th green, with McIntyre overcoming an early 1 up lead by Meyers after eighteen holes.
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Maurice McIntyre
Indianapolis
Mary Jane Meyers
McIntyre
Meyers
Rev Bruno Zielenski Dies After Swimming At Erie Beach
The 32 year old Rev Bruno Zielenski of Cleveland collapsed Sunday night after leaving the water at Erie Beach Monroe. Acute dilation of the heart was given as the cause of death.
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United Prease
Monroe
Mich
Bruno Zielenski
Cleveland
Erie Beach
Fragmentary OCR Weather Bits and Numbers
Fragmentary text shows repeated time stamps and numbers 6 a.m. 10 a.m. noon 12 dollars likely notes of temperatures or measurements. The readable items include 67 69 18 5 12 80 72 88 with scattered letters and symbols offering no clear event or full context.
Byrd to speak at Exchange Club meeting
City residents will applaud Byrd arriving from Chicago to address the Exchange Club parley. A separate incident notes burglars at William Ehrich Sheet Metal Co removing a sign and fleeing before stealing anything, after previously blowing a safe.
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Byrd
Chicago
Exchange Club
Parley
Helen Kane Faces Court Over Fifty Thousand Gift Claim
In New York a bankruptcy hearing examined a $50,000 gift to actress Helen Kane by Murray Posner. Kane testified the money was repayment for a loan rather than a gift, noting their spring Hollywood visits and Posner’s inability to cash checks abroad. She offered canceled checks totaling $27,281 and said the rest was lost in moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
New York
Helen Kane
Murray Posner
Bond Dress Company
Posner
Miss Kane
Peter B. Olney
Hollywood
Entertainment
Dorner Seaplane Forced Down Near Queensport
The trans Atlantic Dorner seaplane led by Captain Wolfgang von Gronau descended in fog at Sheet Harbor midway to Halifax after taking off from Cartright Labrador for Halifax. Crew included E Zimmer second pilot F Albrecht radio operator and E Heack mechanic.
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United Press
Queensport
Nova Scotia
Dornier
Wolfgang von Gronau
Sheet Harbor
Rce
Halifax
Cartright
Labrador
Atlantic
Iceland
Greenland
Germany
von Gronau
E. Zimmer
F. Albracht
E. Heack
Hit Run Driver Injures Five In Safety Zone
A hit and run driver sped through a pedestrian safety area in Los Angeles injuring five people and throwing a 2 year old boy from a bystander’s arms. The child was found two miles away sitting on a lawn unharmed. Ignacio Turin was held by Agnes Lopez, a friend of the mother, as police investigated the incident.
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United Press
Los Angeles
Ignacio Turin
Agnes Lopez
Bandit Trio Rob Ice Substation and Parlor
Three bandits robbed the Capital City Ice Company's substation and a soft drink parlor at 3100 Madison Avenue this morning. They obtained $47 from the ice company and $17 from the soft drink stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ice Company
Capital City Ice Company
Madison Avenue
HIT BY STREET CAR PITFALL LEAVES 73 YEAR OLD NEAR DEATH
John Waltz aged 73 of 1218 South Sheffield Avenue lies near death at Methodist Hospital from injuries suffered Sunday when struck by a street car at the intersection of North Kappas and streets.
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Man
John Waltz
Sheffield Avenue
Methodist Hospital
Kappas Streets
Famous Explorer Byrd Arrives in City For Reception
Plans for greeting Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd at Mars Hill airport shift slightly as he travels from Chicago without an escort. A large Indianapolis reception and a parade to Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument precede speeches at Cable Tabernacle with notable aviators and officials present.
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Richard E. Byrd
Mars Hill
Byrd
Chicago
Herold M. Harter
National Exchange Club
Army
Tabernacle
Hawks
Indianapolis
Clifford Henderson
Soldiers’ and Sailors
Reginald H. Sullivan
Monument
Guy K. Jeffries
Exchange Clubs
Jeffries
Sullivan
Leslie
Muller
Cy Caldwell
Admiral Byrd
Walter Hinton
Washington, D. C
Atlantic
General Parker
Walter 8. Crosley
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
John McReady
Marjorie Stinson
Harold E. Hartney
H. Weir Cook
H. H. Maxwell
P. G. B. Morris
John M. Vorys
William E. Arthur
Frank A. Tichenor
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Gar
S. W. Strauss
M’intyre Toy Golf Champ
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